We just received some IPA news from Elysian Brewing Company. They plan to get a bit manic about IPA in the coming months. Also, Avatar Jasmine IPA (one of Mrs. Beerblog’s most favorite beers ever) is about to make its return and is getting a facelift. The brewery reports that after a little hiatus due…
Yesterday we told you that Sierra Nevada Brewing apparently chose Asheville, NC as the location for its second brewery. Today it’s official. Here it the press release from Sierra Nevada, which showed up in our inbox a few minutes ago. Sierra Nevada Chooses Asheville-Area for Eastern Brewery Expansion CHICO, Calif. - Jan. 25, 2012 –…
Below we have the list of beers that will be poured at Belgianfest this year. Scroll down if that’s all you want. We have a couple of other things to say about Belgianfest as well. The event takes place one week from Saturday on Seattle’s waterfront – Saturday, February 4th at the Bell Harbor Conference…
(A couple days after we originally published this story, Sierra Nevada sent us a press release announcing their decision. Read that follow-up story here.) Apparently Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is about to prove what The Examiner (Examiner.com) has been telling us for two years: Asheville, North Carolina is a great beer town. For the past…
We just received an update from Westport Brewing. Mark Wagner, the Brewmaster, just sent us an email to tell us the following: “We’ve been in production since late December 2011 and our tap room opened January 1 2012. Our Cohasset Cream Ale is ‘selling like hotcakes’ in Grays Harbor! Take a road trip, see the…
Next Wednesday the Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub in West Seattle hosts a delicious tasting event featuring a vertical selection of big beers: three vintages of Imperial Stout. The West Seattle brewpub is a bit off the beaten path for most Washington beer enthusiasts. For the Washington Beer Blog, Elliott Bay is our local pub….
Congratulations to Anthony Stone, the recipient of the 2012 Glen Hay Falconer Foundation American Brewers Guild scholarship. Anthony, one of the brewers at Boundary Bay Brewing in Bellingham, will attend the American Brewers Guild’s Intensive Brewing Sciences and Engineering course. This year the Foundation entertained the largest number of applications in the program’s history. The…
Enrollment is now open for the National IPA Championship (NIPAC). Each year the Brewing News invites brewers from across the country to enter a competition pitting beers against beers in a tournament-style elimination taste-off. Five locations across the country host tasting events throughout February. This year the tournament makes its first stop on the West…
American Brewing Company is now selling its beer online and shipping it across the country. There’s more to it than that, but the short version is that you can now send a case of Breakaway IPA to Uncle Bubba in Bakersfield or to Aunt Wilma in Walla Walla. You can also send a case of…
